Little titbit for you but when I was in Primary school, me and my little brother would wave to Ameobi out of the back of the car window when he was a 17 year old going to the bus for training and we were getting dropped off at school. He always smiled, sometimes laughed at us, great bloke even as a young lad.
This is where he lived before the family moved to my neck of the woods in Fenham:
northcote street - Google Maps